The goal of anyone that starts to practice TaeKwonDo is to get a black belt. Getting to your first-degree black belt will take a minimum of 2 to 3 years. To go from one black belt degree to the next will take as many years as the belt you are going to test for. Getting a black belt is not an ending to your training but, it is just the beginning of learning Taekwondo, and that is why there are nine degrees of black belts.